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Mobile Empty jury box in a courtroom

Confessions and a Discarded Theory as Letson Murder Trial Nears Its End

James Bullard, May 25, 2010

Jurors in the trial of Jamie Letson heard how a timeline error once pointed detectives toward a University of South Alabama campus officer, and how a 2008 interview changed the case.

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A Letter to the Dead: Trial Opens in 1980 Killing of USA Student Katherine Foster

James Bullard, May 17, 2010

Thirty years after Katherine Foster was shot on the University of South Alabama campus, jurors were seated in the murder trial of Jamie Letson, whose handwritten letter of amends may become evidence.

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